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Acme Novelty Library Analysis by Allen Rubinstein Accoutrement God Acme Novelty Library Analysis by Allen Rubinstein Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that the following is over the top. Way, way, WAY over the top. It’s a cry for help, really, but I was perusing the Acme book and the other Acme issues last night and I was so impressed by the depth of it, that I felt the obsessive collector’s urge to catalogue the whole thing. No one has asked for this, and I’m quite sure no one wants to read it, but what the hell. This is easily the most ‘Rusty Brownish’ thing I’ve ever done, coming as it does out of my current state of unemployment. Maybe it’s the early signs of OCD setting in. I’m also aware that Ware himself would be horrified by the attention. Most artists would approach old, out-of-print work as something to repackage and make more money off of. Ware has completely revamped material from throughout his canon into a stunning new work. First a few observations: It’s very clear to me that there’s value in fans of Ware’s work owning everything he publishes. Truly, you haven’t read all of Ware until you’ve read all of Ware. I’d guess that Ware sees his body of work as a piece, not only illustrating a story and its themes, but demonstrating something recognizable about comics that develops and mutates and metamorphasizes over time. It’s instructional to see which strips are left out (most of the first two issues of Acme remain un-reprinted) and which change subtly by changing their proximity to different strips in different books (I’ll note more subtle changes below). You could almost say that Final Report to Shareholders, McSweeney’s and his other projects amount to a campaign to prove the depth and breadth of comics’ possibilities. Accoutrement • Cover: Gold foil design suffused with hidden letter A,C,M,E. The two edges of the cover opposite the spine contain a teeny, tiny original strip almost too small to be seen without a magnifying glass. It appears to be about the cyclical lifespan. The decorative strip refers to this as ‘The World’s Smallest Comic Strip’ • Decorative wraparound strip: Provides the full title: ACME Our Annual Report to Shareholders and Rainy Day Saturday Afternoon Fun Book. Quotes negative comments about Ware’s work from two newspapers, The New Yorker and an NPR personality as well as quotes from abolitionist Frederick Douglas, Aristotle, Flaubert and Jack Black. Portrays Ware next to his self-deprecating bio as a light bulb bearing his abstracted features. Title, Our Spring Novelty Library, at bottom is reprinted from ACME #12, inside front cover. • Inside decorative strip: Original strip - Apology and Souvenir Comic Strip. Apparently, there are six different punch lines in different copies. God Narrative • First inclusion is a single panel as part of Draw Me parody on the first page, bearing the blue-on-black quote, ‘(continued from issue back cover)’. This implies that the whole storyline is cyclical, with God creating, outlasting and then re-creating the universe ad nauseam. • Panels are then seen interwoven through pages 2, 4, 6 and 17. The strip at top of page 6, called ‘I Hate Myself’, where he creates the Earth and human life, leads into the first of two ‘history of art’ segments in the book (the next panel is the caveman at his stone ‘drawing table’). • 44-55 is the center of the storyline where God wreaks all kinds of capricious havoc, steals a female child, takes her as a mate, gets arrested, then draws the entire story to that point (his autobiography) in pictographs on the prison walls with a bent nail. The final panel of his ‘comic’ shows him flying away from the prison which he then does, leaving the Earth. The first few pages are probably inspired by ACME #7, page 25, which both include saving an airplane and a terrified female whom God has just ‘rescued’ • Story continues in short segments on pages 57, 60, 76, 77 (half page), 96, 97, 100, 101 and 104 before wrapping around to page 1 again in the final page and inside back cover. God relocates to the moon where he eats moon rock. Time progresses forward five thousand, five billion and five billion times ten to the tenth power years, until he’s completely alone in the void of space and ready to create the universe again • There’s a teeny-tiny God in the center of the cover’s spine. The Main body • Pagination is confusing. There’re five pages leading up to the page labeled page four.. • Inside front cover: Ad parody from ACME #10 on back cover of the heavy cardstock ‘insert’ Corrigan comic. Be My Guest parody below it is new • Page -2. Make Mistakes/Get Children ad parody from ACME #1, back cover. (some of his funniest spoof text ever if you ask me). DRAW ME parody below it is new. • -1. Sell Drugs ad parody from ACME #6 back cover. The test is heavily edited down even though the font size, for once, is much bigger. Your Name on Everything You Own above it is new. • If the FRIEDS ad parody was printed anywhere in the series, I can’t find it. Anyone? I know the Pep Up candy ad is new. • Top tier of parody ads and left column down to ‘Fat Folks’ is from ACME #7, page five. Have You figured out what you’re going to do with your life? and Break into Surgery are from ACME #5, the first Jimmy Corrigan issue. You can now make more money’ is from ACME #2, Page 38. The G.I. Jim strip is from ACME #10 back cover with the ‘bottom row’ (coupon and Rusty addresses the reader) transposed from another strip in the same issue. Somebody to Trust ad is new, and I think Odor of Childhood and Everything’s Going to Be All Right are also new. • ‘Say, Gang’ ad parody is from ACME #15, page two enlarged in size and all the color stripped away in favor of shades of red. DO YOU and Meaning of Life parodies are also from ACME #15, page 2. G.I. Jim Strip is from ACME #10, inside back cardstock cover of the ‘insert’ Jimmy Corrigan comic. Ad Parody, Free Book about Lust is from ACME #2, page 39 shrunk down a bit. I can’t find Feudalism anywhere. • 4-5. Obviously inspired by the MUCH cruder constellation diagram on page seven of ACME #7. A few of the drawings seem taken from that image, but are not identical. • 6-9. First history of art section is new • 10-11. Front and back cover of ACME #15 with major changes. The color has all been removed, and the entire image seems to have been flipped. The (very bizarre fonted) title ACME Novelty Library has been replaced with more wacko pictographics. They appear to be very abstracted male bodies, complete with flaccid and erect penises, representing the positive and negative sides of human temptation, i.e. sobriety/imbibement, lust/abstinence. The right and left sides, previously text describing the volume, are replaced with images of various life settings (hospital bed, igloo, drawing board, construction site) absent the people. Next to the Summer, Spring, Winter Fall images inside circles at the NSEW poles, Ware has added four more images representing four of his characters. • 12. Big Tex from ACME #7, inside front cover. • 13. Rocket Sam from ACME #7, page 3 • 14. Tales of Tomorrow (#12) is from ACME #15, Page 5 • 15. Rusty Brown is from ACME #15, page 4 • 16. Quimby the Mouse is from ACME #15, page 25 • 17 Rusty Brown is new • 18-23. Center globe logo is from ACME #15, page one. Bit building cutaway on pages 20-21 is from ACME #6, inside back cover. Tower image on page 21 is from ACME #2, inside front cover, without the text. Page 23 has ad parody, ACME and Mr. Mexican want to put you in the movies! from ACME #9 back cover. The color scheme is radically changed and washed out, I presume to better match the somber tones of the historical section. I haven’t gotten around to reading all the tiny type, but obviously the Dick Public, Letterer, single panel comics and all the photos are here for the first time. • 24-25. Second history of art segment and Draw Cartoons and Doom Yourself strips are new • 26. Big Tex from ACME #7, page 9 • 27. Rocket Sam from ACME #7, page 11. Colors are much more vivid. • 28 Rocket Sam from ACME #15, page 2. It’s much bigger • 29. Rocket Sam from ACME #7, page 16. Wow those colors are vivid. • 30. Big Tex from ACME #7, page 12 • 31. Rocket Sam from ACME #7, page 13. Color changed from pale blue to sepia tone. • 32. Big Tex from ACME #7, page 19 • 33. Big Tex from ACME #7, page 17. • 34. Rocket Sam from ACME #7, page 10 • 35. Rocket Sam from ACME #7, page 18. Color changed from purplish grey to pale green. • 36. Rocket Sam from ACME #7, page 20 • 37. Rocket Sam from ACME #7, page 21 • 38 Rocket Sam from ACME, #7, page 26 • 39. Big Tex from ACME #7, page 27 • 40. Big Tex from ACME #8, page 28 • 41. Motion Picture Machine cutout toy is from ACME #2 with formatting changes. Panels that go inside the machine have been changed from the Potato Man stabbing his eyes with scissors to God juggling.
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